Cult Classics

[mirium]

I just found out that Lou and Peter Berryman are on ITunes! They're folk singers, I guess, for lack of a better genre -- yodeling and accordian playing do often occur -- but mostly they're just funny. One of my favorites from their repertoire is "Your State's Name Here" which is a generic song just in case anyone's state doesn't have one. Here are the lyrics, and it's sung exactly like this; where it says "your state's name here" or "again", that's what they sing. (She sings most of it, he sings the bits in brackets):

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Sometimes when the grass is blown by the breeze
There's a far away look in the leaves of the trees
A memory returns, heartbreakingly clear
Of a place I call home, [Your state's name here]

No sky could be deeper, no water so clear
As back in the meadows of [Your state's name here]
I'm gonna go back, although I don't know when
There's no other place like [Your state's name again]

{Refrain}
Oh [Your state's name here], oh [Again], what a state
I have not been back since
Where the asphalt grows soft in July every year
In the warm summer mornings of [Your state's name here]

My grampa would come and turn on the game
And fall asleep drinking [Your local beer's name]
While gramma would sing in the garden for hours
To all of [The names of indigenous flowers]

The songs that she sang were somewhat obscure
She learned from the local townspeople I'm sure
The language they use is not very clear
Like [Place a colloquialism right here]

{Refrain}

I'd love to wake up where [The state songbird] sings
Where they manufacture [The names of some things]
Like there on the bumper, a sticker so clear
An I, then a heart, and then [Your state's name here]

Whisper it soft, it's a song to my ear
[Your state's name here, your state's name here]
It's there I was born and it's there I'll grow old
By the rivers of blue and the arches of gold

{Refrain}

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I'm also fond of "Why Are We Painting The Living Room?" and "Does Your Dog Agonize?"

[jaglady]

Sorry, when you say "cult classic", I think of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

[mirium]

Yeah, that is the classic Cult Classic, isn't it? Although there are a lot of sci fi movies from the '50s and '60s that come to mind too -- Night Of The Living Dead, Day of the Triffids, Beach Blanket Bingo....

Come to think of it, so many people know about Rocky Horror -- has it crossed over into mainstream culture?